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- Date: Wed, 05 Feb 92 17:52:04 CST
- From: "Paul Pomes, UofIllinois-CSO" <Paul-Pomes@uiuc.edu>
-
- This is to let you all know what is happening with the 5.65d release of
- sendmail. Paul Vixie of DECWRL and I met several times during the San
- Francisco Usenix to discuss merging our two versions of IDA sendmail
- (KJS and UIUC/NIU) into a single package. The first step is to combine
- the remaining features of KJS into the UIUC sources. That's the easy
- part. The next part, which I was reluctantly convinced to do, is re-do
- the code structure so that it diff's cleanly against the 5.65 Berkeley
- source. By omitting key #define's, the original 5.65 sendmail can be
- compiled. In some cases, such as the rewritten _rewrite(), whole routines
- will be duplicated - one for IDA, the other for BSD. The reason is to
- convince the cautious that the new sendmail does no more evil than the
- vanilla BSD sendmail.
-
- This organization will be done for one release. After that backward
- compatibility at the code level will be scrapped in favor of better
- design.
-
- With these decisions the release schedule has been modified. I will
- start the editting process sometime next week and run local tests on
- the new feature inclusion. Once Paul and I have agreed that the feature
- set is done, the code re-structure will begin. This last part can be
- farmed-out to interested workers.
-
- /pbp
-